CRH boss takes home €3.5m

CRH plc chief executive Liam O’Mahony is Ireland’s best-paid chief executive, earning €3.5 million in 2004, putting him more than €1m ahead of any of his peers.

To match the CRH boss’s 2004 earnings, a worker on the minimum wage of €7, working 40 hours a week, would have to work for 238 years and eight months.

Mr O’Mahony’s 2004 remuneration package of €2m was boosted by the payment of a once-off €1.5m bonus related to the company’s performance over the previous five years.